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I'm really disappointed with Conservative fascination with Putin. He is a corrupt, autocratic, anti-American, anti-democratic authoritarian. I don't know where this weird fascist chic came from but it's unsettling. I don't give a damn if Putin is 'manly' I do however care that he murders journalists and attacks our democratic allies.

I guess it's just "Obama derangement syndrome". Some people hate Obama so much that anybody, no matter how ugly or disgusting, is fine, as long as he has a beef with Obama.

"Not learning from mistakes is worse than committing mistakes. When you don't allow yourself to make mistakes, it is hard to be tolerant of others and it does not allow even God to be merciful."

That isn't a positive thing in my book. I'm not exactly in favor of homosexuals being used as national scapegoats and brutally oppressed. I voted for Romney, McCain, Bush so don't get any ideas about where I stand either.

Stop for one moment and try and consider what a conflict between America and Russia in the middle east would look like.
Of course you need to consider how hard core Putin is and what our guy brings to the table?
I'm putting my money on the guy that doesn't wear mom jeans

Yeah, I guess if Obama and Putin and all of us others were gorillas or chimpanzees, you'd probably have a point.

"Not learning from mistakes is worse than committing mistakes. When you don't allow yourself to make mistakes, it is hard to be tolerant of others and it does not allow even God to be merciful."

I'm not even going to waste time scanning nonsense or try to have a discussion with anyone who has no points to make other than angry trolling as an excuse to be disruptive and agitate. Differences of opinion are fine but if a person doesn't have enough character and maturity to be polite, I'm out.

"People who point out my fallacies, both factual and rhetorical, well....they are just downright im-po-lite and they give me the vapors!"

Originally Posted by trouble13

If you wanna know why Trumpsters are ignoring you its for the same reason you ignored the KKKs complaints about Obama.

August 28, 2013
Putin’s Silence on Syria Signals Resignation on Attack
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
MOSCOW — Russia has made its opposition to military intervention in Syria vehemently clear. The foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warns daily about the risk of an escalating conflagration. A deputy prime minister said the West dealt with the Islamic world like “a monkey with a grenade.” A few commentators on the fringe have warned of World War III.

The one voice that has remained silent, though, is the one that matters most.

President Vladimir V. Putin has conspicuously avoided public comment on reports of a chemical weapons attack on civilians outside of Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Aug. 21, which killed hundreds of people. Instead he has carried on, like many ordinary Russians, as if the civil war in Syria had not reached an ominous new phase. In the days after the attack, Mr. Putin attended a ceremony for the restoration of a fountain made famous in World War II, visited a breakaway province of neighboring Georgia and toured a mine and dam in Siberia.

There is no doubt about Mr. Putin’s opposition to retaliatory strikes. Nor about his support of the government of President Bashar al-Assad in a conflict Mr. Assad has repeatedly described as a war against Islamic extremism.

Mr. Putin’s public reticence, though, reflects a calculation that Russia can do little to stop a military intervention if the United States and other countries move ahead without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council – and that he has little to lose at home, at least, if they do.

Mr. Lavrov, in expansive remarks to reporters this week, made it clear that Russia’s reaction to international intervention in Syria would be limited to a war of words – “We, of course, are not planning to go to war with anybody,” he said. That stance could ultimately benefit Mr. Putin.